On 8 September 2016, the Secretary-General of UNIDROIT was in Amman to attend the Ministerial-level Culture Under Threat Conference, hosted by the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with the support of The Antiquities Coalition and the Middle East Institute. Seventeen Middle East and North African countries and the League of Arab States also attended to coordinate efforts to halt the use of antiquities trafficking as a source of terrorist financing. Click here for more information.